RRB English Current Affairs 13th May 2018

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and UAE Minister of State & Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Group CEO Dr. Sultan Al Jaber flagged off first consignment of 2 million barrels of ADNOC crude for India.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will set up a dedicated web portal for spreading information on filming locations and production facilities available in India.

J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare chaired a high level meeting to review the preparedness of various agencies for prevention and management of vector borne diseases, in New Delhi.

In a bid to attract more Buddhist tourists from across the world, Central Government has decided to expand Buddhist tourism circuit to 21 more states.

Chief of Army Staff General of India, Bipin Rawat arrived at Colombo on a five-day visit to Sri Lanka.

A parliamentary panel of 30 membersestimate Committeealso known as Continuous Economy committee has been constituted by the speaker of parliament . Veteran BJP leader Mr.MuraliManohar Joshi has been appointed as the chairman of this committee.

China’s first domestically developed aircraft carrier began sea trials.

In a bid to expand its footprint in the digital banking and payments space, Fino Payments

Bank has launched a digital services suite.

Dena Bank has announced that Reserve Bank of India has restricted it from taking fresh credit exposure and recruiting new staff.

As per the report RemitSCOPE – Remittance markets and opportunities- Asia and the Pacific, India was the largest remittance-receiving country in the world, with migrant workers from India sending home USD 69 billion in 2017

singer Lata Mangeshkar was presented the Swara Mouli title by spiritual guru Vidya Narsimha Bharati Swami at her residence in Prabhu Kunj, Mumbai.

“Carbon Monitoring System (CMS)”, a NASA programme that cost $10 million per year to track carbon and methane was cancelled.